Technical

Our AM (medium wave) station broadcasts with a 10,000-watt Nautel ND-10 solid-state transmitter feeding a 212-foot (65m), 1/4-wave antenna. This is located near sea level in a valley about one-half mile from the Caribbean coast. The FM transmitter is a Crown FM 250 with an FM2000 RF amplifier feeding a 2-bay SWR FMEC circularly polarized antenna. The antenna is mounted on a 40-foot tower at Mount Obama (formerly Boggy Peak), at an elevation of 1319 feet (402m). STLs (studio-transmitter links) are Armstrong XLink for AM (350 MHz) and for FM (344 & 346 MHz).

In the studio we are using an Audioarts R55E as the broadcast console for the AM station and a Broadcast Tools ACS8.2 Plus for FM. An Audioarts R60 console is used for production. We use Shure SM7B microphones.

Most of our programming is computerized. We employ BSI’s Simian Pro as our on-air software and Adobe Audition for production.